argentite

Argentite from Freiberg, Germany.Courtesy of the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago; photograph John H. Gerard/EB Inc.

silver sulfide mineral that is blackish lead-gray in color and has metallic luster; most important ore of silver; abundant in sulfide mineral deposits of Kongsberg (Norway), Zacatecas (Mexico), and Comstock Lode of Nevada; forms isometric (cubic) crystals at high temperatures, which invert to nonisometric structures upon cooling without changing external appearance

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